How To Schedule a Facebook Share

This is one of those blogs that I’m writing because people keep asking me this question time and time again! Facebook doesn’t have a built-in way to schedule shared posts but sometimes for business purposes, we need to do this. Why?

Sharing other people’s content is important - social media doesn’t really work if we don’t share

We don’t want to overwhelm our audience with a bunch of back-to-back posts

The key to this is finding the unique URL to the post you want to share. Read on for instructions for both desktop and mobile.

On Desktop

Find the post you want to share. See where it says the time posted? It might look like the image below “September 25 at 7:56am” or “1 day ago” or “53 mins”. You might not realize, but that is a clickable link.

Click it!

The post will appear by itself like below. See the long crazy URL in your browser bar? That is the unique URL to this specific post.

Highlight the *entire* link

Copy the link (it will automatically save to your clipboard)

Go back to your business page

In the update box where it says “Write something” paste the link. The post preview will show up automatically underneath the update box

Delete the big ugly link - this will not delete the shared post from the preview!

Write your own caption on why you're sharing this post, why you think it's important, or why you think your audience might like it

Scroll down until you see the Publish button

Click the drop-down arrow beside the Publish button

Click Schedule

Select the date and time you want the post to go out

Click Schedule

Your scheduled posts can be viewed by clicking “See post” or “Publishing Tools”.

On Mobile

Find the post you want to share

Tap the “Share” icon

Tap “Copy Link” (it will automatically save to your clipboard)

Go to your business page

Tap the “Publish” icon

Paste the link. The post preview will show up automatically underneath the update box

Delete the big ugly link - this will not delete the shared post from the preview!

Write your own caption on why you're sharing this post, why you think it's important, or why you think your audience might like it

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